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41. Wednesday, January 14, 1835.

On motion of Mr Prescott, Ordered, that the Secretary of State be required to deposite the several volumes, containing the Journals of the Senate, within the Archives of the Senate Chamber, during the present Session.

Communications were received from Edward Williams, Seth Labaree, and Benjamin Carr, signifying their acceptance of the office of Counsellors. Read and sent down.

Communication of Mark Harris transmitting the annual Report of the Treasurer, exhibiting a detail of the transactions and state of the Treasury for the year 1834 - read and referred to a Joint Select Committee consisting, on the part of the Senate, of Messrs Barnard, Bartlett and Clark, with such as the House may join. Sent down for concurrence. Concurred, and Messrs. Steward of Anson, Perkins of Kennebunk Port, Call of Bangor, Burleigh of Dexter, Curtis of Freedom, Underwood of Fayette and Dillingham of Turner are joined.

On motion of Mr Purinton, Ordered, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the 4th section of an act entitled an Act to secure to log owners their property in logs, masts, spars and other timber, passed April 1st, 1831, as to exempt owners of land from the penalties of the Act on the remote parts of which logs, masts, spars or other timber may have been found with the mark cut out or altered, or the said logs cut up or